If one prefers not to have i3wm and would like to just use CentOS 7 with either KDE or Gnome from this point, they should feel free to selectDevelopment and Creative Workstation instead ofBasic Web Server in the first pane and choose their preferred GUI/Window Manager now. Otherwise, continue on for a simple i3wm quickstart guide.

After choosing software, continue the installation as normal. Set a root password, setup a new administrator user, and finish. Once rebooted and logged in as the new user, we can begin setting things up and installing i3wm.

Setup network

This is necessary to communicate with the outside world, which we need to do in order to install software packages. Follow instructions at krizna. The first
three steps underGUI Mode are all that are necessary.

Add Required Repositories

Run these commands in order to install the two extra package repositories we need.

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